Stole this from someone else.
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Pay attention during class.
Prof Augustine was saying there is a reason why our civil servants are highly paid, and Singaporeans need to stop whining about that. In many countries, one would often need to fork out a certain amount to members of the senate/government if they wish to do business in that area. But, Singapore by paying civil servants lots of money manage to prevent corruption in our politically stable goverment. Bravo to Singapore!
But, that's like saying that crimminals are just under-paid. If we pay our crimminals enough, in theory they wouldn't need to steal from others eh?
But, that's like saying that crimminals are just under-paid. If we pay our crimminals enough, in theory they wouldn't need to steal from others eh?
Sunday, January 14, 2007
Yet another movie related post.
Snooping around the bargain bin a few weeks and chanced upon a gem. You know what they say, one man's trash is another man's treasure and indeed, I finally got lucky. (Not in that sense you bastards)
Behold, the 8th wonder of the world!
Behold, the 8th wonder of the world!
There it is, A Chinese Tall Story. A story so good that it almost had me in tears. Almost. I wouldn't be such an ass and spoil the story for you chaps, but anything that involves illogical plot/spiderman/aliens/romance/journey to the west combined in one huge visual fest can't be bad. And I have managed to purchase the DVD version at a steal of $10 bucks. (For those who have no concept of money, it equals to 5 packs of chicken rice). Woohoo. Granted when it first came out, it was only selling for $15.90 ( 8 packs of chicken rice), but my patience have enabled to save 3 packs of chicken rice! I think that calls for a celebration.
I remembered the time after I watch it, I was so damn impressed that i couldn't stop pimping it to my peers, and a couple of my peers were tricke...uh.. coaxed by me into watching it. Which might explain why they have stopped talking to me. Feel free to borrow the DVD from me. Hell, I even pay you to watch the show! It's that awesome.
Ai ni yi wan nian!
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Top 5 lines you shouldn't say.
5. “Just be yourself”
How to score at a job interview? How to chat up someone of the opposite sex? How to get the professor to notice you in class? Chances if you had asked your friends this question, they might have told you to “just be yourself”. Of course common sense and logic tells you that people will like you for what you are, so no point faking it. The girl will like you for being you. Your boss will think that you are quick witted and creative and promote you. Or your professors might love you for being yourself, when other students are attempting to score brownie points.
Looks like logic just flew out of the window.
When people tell you this, you know who never to ask for advice when you have other issues in the future. “Oh dear, I seem to have cancer.” Cool, just be yourself. Being yourself isn't going to solve problems. In fact, if people hated you, it's most likely because you were “being yourself” in the first place.
4. “LOL”
LOL means laughing out loud in internet terms. It was supposed be mean that you are laughing in reply to what people are saying. But, nowadays people punctuate their instant messaging sentences with LOL, just to assure you how funny you are to make them laugh out loud in front of their laptops. (Even if it's in the middle of class) That's all right actually. I use it all the time too.
What irk me are people actually physically, in front-of-my-face, actually using their mouth to say the letters L, O and L. Yes, when by right, they should be busy laughing. IT DOESN”T MAKE SENSE! Once I overheard a guy saying that, and almost punched him, but was afraid that the society of retards and morons might sue, so I stopped myself in time. Luckily for me, or else I might be sentenced to jail for animal abuse. Or worse, fined.
3. “Let's just be friends.”
Do I really need to explain this?
2. “I hate techno”
Because one day, a crazy guy might just decide kidnap you and then tie you up and proceed...... to force you to listen to 3 hours straight of non-stop mega mix. But of course, that's just hypothetically speaking.
1. “Hu le.”
For those who don't understand hanyu pinyin, it means to win the mahjong game. Especially if I am the one throwing out the winning tile. No one except for me should even be allowed to say that. No one except for Angus that is, coz there is a 70% chance that he is anyhow pushing his tiles down either to make us laugh at him or just to give us money. My gut feeling tells me it's both of them.
Don't you hate it when you get freaking good tiles, and somehow lady luck just wants to play you out at the last minute? I am sure everyone has that kind of day, with the possible exception of Neo who has amazingly incredible devilish luck. Bet he wears 3 layers of red underwear, that bastard. Disclaimer, I am not a sore loser. But don't point fingers at me when the table gets flipped in your face.
I should really be mugging instead.
How to score at a job interview? How to chat up someone of the opposite sex? How to get the professor to notice you in class? Chances if you had asked your friends this question, they might have told you to “just be yourself”. Of course common sense and logic tells you that people will like you for what you are, so no point faking it. The girl will like you for being you. Your boss will think that you are quick witted and creative and promote you. Or your professors might love you for being yourself, when other students are attempting to score brownie points.
Looks like logic just flew out of the window.
When people tell you this, you know who never to ask for advice when you have other issues in the future. “Oh dear, I seem to have cancer.” Cool, just be yourself. Being yourself isn't going to solve problems. In fact, if people hated you, it's most likely because you were “being yourself” in the first place.
4. “LOL”
LOL means laughing out loud in internet terms. It was supposed be mean that you are laughing in reply to what people are saying. But, nowadays people punctuate their instant messaging sentences with LOL, just to assure you how funny you are to make them laugh out loud in front of their laptops. (Even if it's in the middle of class) That's all right actually. I use it all the time too.
What irk me are people actually physically, in front-of-my-face, actually using their mouth to say the letters L, O and L. Yes, when by right, they should be busy laughing. IT DOESN”T MAKE SENSE! Once I overheard a guy saying that, and almost punched him, but was afraid that the society of retards and morons might sue, so I stopped myself in time. Luckily for me, or else I might be sentenced to jail for animal abuse. Or worse, fined.
3. “Let's just be friends.”
Do I really need to explain this?
2. “I hate techno”
Because one day, a crazy guy might just decide kidnap you and then tie you up and proceed...... to force you to listen to 3 hours straight of non-stop mega mix. But of course, that's just hypothetically speaking.
1. “Hu le.”
For those who don't understand hanyu pinyin, it means to win the mahjong game. Especially if I am the one throwing out the winning tile. No one except for me should even be allowed to say that. No one except for Angus that is, coz there is a 70% chance that he is anyhow pushing his tiles down either to make us laugh at him or just to give us money. My gut feeling tells me it's both of them.
Don't you hate it when you get freaking good tiles, and somehow lady luck just wants to play you out at the last minute? I am sure everyone has that kind of day, with the possible exception of Neo who has amazingly incredible devilish luck. Bet he wears 3 layers of red underwear, that bastard. Disclaimer, I am not a sore loser. But don't point fingers at me when the table gets flipped in your face.
I should really be mugging instead.
Monday, January 01, 2007
The last night in the cultural learning of the golden flower
Curse of the golden flower.
Cleavage, great visuals, cleavage, chow yun fatt, cleavage, lousy jay chou acting, cleavage, and basically screams to Hollywood, “Please let me be the next Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon!” That pretty much sums up the whole movie. The first thing you notice about the show, (no prizes for guessing), is the sheer amount of cleavage that is present. I had never previously thought it is possible to get sick of seeing cleavage, but seems like they really up the bar on this one. After the first 10mins of the show where like 50 palace maids were eagerly thrusting their assets to the audience, I start to wonder if this movie should be played at Yangtze instead.
Chow is great as a bad guy in the show, and the best part is he wins in the end. And oh, the above is a spoiler. Don't read if you hadn't seen the show. Jay and Gongli had an army of golden armor soldiers, the 3rd prince had uhh… like 4 or 5 bodyguards, Chow has silver armor clad military and a friggin army of ninjas! How the hell do you escape an army of ruthless assassins? Ninjas are like.... Ninjas! You just can't fight them. The plot isn't that fantastic, the music isn't that nice, basically, it all boils down to the scene where 50 odds ninjas assaulted helpless victims with blood gushing like there is free flow of house pour.
Borat : Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan
It's an extremely offensive show that degrades women, religion and stupid Americans. Please go and catch it. It's that good. The scene of the bear roaring out of the ice cream at unsuspecting children is the priceless. Ko and me were still laughing over that after the end of the show. Although I do suspect that is the only part that she liked about the movie.
Deathnote: The last name
I must say the ending really surprised me (to a certain extent), and overall the flow is great. If one pokes hard enough, sure, you can find some plot holes in the movie, but who cares when this finally brings the deathnote chapter to a close. Rumors are that there would be a prequel of saying how L became such a great detective. Given the success of this series, it quite a high chance that we would be seeing this in the near future.
On a side-note, Misa is kind of abnormal as the girl infatuated with Kira. I mean she is so damn obsessed that I got abit freak out as well. This would be the kind of girlfriend whom if you breakup with, will very likely murder your whole family before killing both you and her.
A Night In The Museum
Nothing fantastic again, but is good for a good laugh or two. I think.
Maybe I have already graduated from mainstream humor to hardcore slapstick humor. Seems like unless there is something extremely lame and crazy, I wouldn't even attempt a smile. But don't get me wrong, it's still a good funny show, but nothing that you hadn't seen before.
Stupid movies wasted so much of my money.
Cleavage, great visuals, cleavage, chow yun fatt, cleavage, lousy jay chou acting, cleavage, and basically screams to Hollywood, “Please let me be the next Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon!” That pretty much sums up the whole movie. The first thing you notice about the show, (no prizes for guessing), is the sheer amount of cleavage that is present. I had never previously thought it is possible to get sick of seeing cleavage, but seems like they really up the bar on this one. After the first 10mins of the show where like 50 palace maids were eagerly thrusting their assets to the audience, I start to wonder if this movie should be played at Yangtze instead.
Chow is great as a bad guy in the show, and the best part is he wins in the end. And oh, the above is a spoiler. Don't read if you hadn't seen the show. Jay and Gongli had an army of golden armor soldiers, the 3rd prince had uhh… like 4 or 5 bodyguards, Chow has silver armor clad military and a friggin army of ninjas! How the hell do you escape an army of ruthless assassins? Ninjas are like.... Ninjas! You just can't fight them. The plot isn't that fantastic, the music isn't that nice, basically, it all boils down to the scene where 50 odds ninjas assaulted helpless victims with blood gushing like there is free flow of house pour.
Borat : Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan
It's an extremely offensive show that degrades women, religion and stupid Americans. Please go and catch it. It's that good. The scene of the bear roaring out of the ice cream at unsuspecting children is the priceless. Ko and me were still laughing over that after the end of the show. Although I do suspect that is the only part that she liked about the movie.
Deathnote: The last name
I must say the ending really surprised me (to a certain extent), and overall the flow is great. If one pokes hard enough, sure, you can find some plot holes in the movie, but who cares when this finally brings the deathnote chapter to a close. Rumors are that there would be a prequel of saying how L became such a great detective. Given the success of this series, it quite a high chance that we would be seeing this in the near future.
On a side-note, Misa is kind of abnormal as the girl infatuated with Kira. I mean she is so damn obsessed that I got abit freak out as well. This would be the kind of girlfriend whom if you breakup with, will very likely murder your whole family before killing both you and her.
A Night In The Museum
Nothing fantastic again, but is good for a good laugh or two. I think.
Maybe I have already graduated from mainstream humor to hardcore slapstick humor. Seems like unless there is something extremely lame and crazy, I wouldn't even attempt a smile. But don't get me wrong, it's still a good funny show, but nothing that you hadn't seen before.
Stupid movies wasted so much of my money.
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